Button.



No. 667,748. Patented Feb. l2, I90l. J. W. TREADWELL, Decd.

R. W. MOORE, Executor. BUTTON.

( d l.) (Application filed Mm. a, 1898. Renewed. Oct. 27, 1900.

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JOHN TREADNELL, OF SPARTA, GEORGIA; R. W. MOORE EXECUT'OR OF SAIDTREADWVELL, DECEASED.

BUTTON.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent N 0. 667,748, datedFebruary 12, 1901.

Application filed March 5.1898v Renewed October 27, 1900- Serial No.34,650. Lllo model.)

To all whom, 2125 may concern:

Be it known that I,Jo1-IN W. TREADWELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Sparta, in the county of Hancock and State ofGeorgia, have invented a new and useful Button, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to buttons for use on all kinds of garments, andhas for its object to provide an extremely cheap, simple, and durablebutton which may be permanently secured to a garment without the use ofthread, needle, screws, rivets, or any other means of fastening outsideof the button itself.

With this object in view my invention consists in the peculiarconstruction of the several parts, as hereinafter fully described, andpointed out in the claims.

In order to enable others skiled in the art to which myinvention mostnearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed todescribe its construction and operation, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in

' of the button.

Figure l is a perspective view illustrating a button constructed inaccordance with my invention attached to the Waistbandof a pair oftrousers. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one side Fig. 3 is a sectional viewon the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional View on the line 4 4:of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the button.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur in thedifferent figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A and B indicate the two crescentsides or wings of the button, stamped out of sheet metal, having theirpoints A and B turned toward each other. These wings are connectedtogether at the mid-length of their inner sides by a shank or strip ofmetal 0, said inner sides of the wings being curved outward incontinuation of the side lines of the shank, and then inward to thepoints A and B, in order to permit the easy insertion of the button intothe cloth.

While I have illustrated the buttons as stamped, out, or otherwiseformed out of a single piece of sheet metal, which will be the preferredway of manufacturing them, they may,

if desired, be made of three or more separate pieces soldered, brazed,or otherwise properly secured together.

It will be noticed that the two wings Aand B are arranged in the sameplane with each other. These form when the button is in use the outer orhead portion of the button, and the strip 0, which connects the wings,is bent or curved to one side out of the plane of the wing, forming theshank, by which the button is attached to the garment.

To attach my improved button, a fold is made in the cloth of the garmentto which the button is to be attached and a small hole pierced throughboth thicknesses of the fold.

One of the points A or B is passed through the hole in both thicknessesof the fold and the head, of which the entered point forms a part, isforced through the hole, by its wedge shape spreading the fibers of thecloth apart until the other point of the wing has also passed throughand the shank O is in the two holes. Bysimplyspreadingorsmoothingout thecloth both wings will appear on one sidenamely, the outsideof the clothand form,

as before stated, the head of the button, while the shank will appear onthe opposite side (the inside) of the cloth and will securely hold thebutton on the garment, it being impossi- 8o ble to remove it withoutcutting or tearing the cloth from one hole to the other.

Where the cloth to which the button is to be attached is very thin, areinforcing staying-piece may be folded within the fold of the clothbefore piercing it and the wing forced through the stay-piece at thesame time it is forced through the cloth of the garment.

Having thus fully described my invention, 7 what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is-

1. A button consisting of two wings of flat metal of crescent shapearranged in a single plane with their points facing each other and ashort distance apart connected together at the middle of their innersides by a strip of fiat metal bent or curved out of the plane of thewings and forming the shank of the button, substantially as described.

2. A button consisting of a head formed of two crescent wings of flatmetal lying in the IOO same plane with their points toward each other,and a shank consisting of a strip of flat metal connecting the two wingsat the middle of their inner sides, the shank being bent or curved outof the plane of the wings, and the inner sides of the wings being cutaway on each side of the shank on the curved lines extending outwardfrom the side lines of the shank to the points of the wings, substantially as described.

3. The button herein described consisting of two crescent-shaped wingsarranged in the same plane with their points toward each other and theirshanks connecting the wing at the middle of their inner sides, the shankbeing bent out of the plane of the wings, and the inner sides of thewings being curved ont- Ward from the junction of the shank with thewings to the points of the wings, the whole being stamped, out orotherwise formed of a single piece of sheet metal, substantially asdescribed.

JOHN W. TREADWELL. Witnesses:

J. MATT. POUND, R. H. THOMAS.

